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For Preparation of the Conference Manuscript of ICMR2017― Format of a Camera-Ready Manuscript ―10pt Arial for Author(s) (centered)
Mitsutoshi JIKEI* and Kazuya MATSUMOTO*(centered)
9pt Times New Roman(Following Roman) for Affiliation(s) (centered)* Department of Materials Science, Applied Chemistry Course, Graduate School of Engineering Science,
Akita University, Akita 010-8502, Japanjikei@gipc.akita-u.ac.jp 9pt Roman for E-mail address,italic,underline (centered)
Abstract: All manuscripts must be produced clearly on good quality plain white sheets of A4-size (210mm x297mm) or letter size (8 1/2”x11”), and accurately within the dimensions as shown on these pages.
Manuscripts should be submitted as a pdf file in its camera-ready form with no photographic reduction/
uthor(centered)
Title(centered)enlargement. Authors are asked to read these instructions carefully for quick acceptance of your manuscript tothe proceedings by editorial board.
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Keywords: Camera-ready form, Writing style of the proceedings, ICMR2017 9pt Roman for Keywords

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1INTRODUCTION

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2.2 Typed area and margins

The printing area is 170mm x 241mm of A4 sheet. Eachpage should have 20mm top and 20mm left margins. Main text
This document provides some instructionsuthor(centered)for authors ofis separated into two columns with 8mm space between them.
the manuscripts to be included in the Proceedings Volume of
The list of margins is shown in Table 1. For letter size, bottom
the Eighth International Conference on Materials Engineering
margin shouldTitle(centered)be set in 18mm.
for Resources 2017 in Akita. Authors are kindly requested tofollow the instructions given below in order to publish qualified
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2.3 Layout and Fonts
bonding volumes with the uniform layout and style. Each page2.3.1 Title: The first line of title is located 3rd line from the top
must be typed on white paper sheets of A4 size (210mm x297mm) or letter size (8 1/2’’ x 11’’). The manuscript
shouldTitle(centered) of printing box. This space is reserved for Editorial Headings.
Please do not write anything at that place. The title of the paper
be prepared with electronic text processing system. Publisher
should be written centered, single space, in 14pt size Arial facerecommends the use of the Microsoft Word, or some otherletters. The title must not exceed three lines.
word processing software to produce fine quality manuscript. It
is important to ensure the quality of language presentation of2.3.2 Author(s): The author's name, without degrees or
your paper.
qualifications, should include first and middle (if any) name
The manuscript should be arranged concisely within 6
initial, and surname. It should be written centered, in 10pt size
pages including figures, tables, photos etc. If authors canArial face letter, one and half line (18pt) below the title.
arrange the manuscript material into less than 6 pages without
2.3.3 Affiliation(s): Author's affiliation should be written
any inconvenience to understand the contents of manuscript,
centered, in 9pt size Times New Roman with one line (11pt)
the shortened concise version is also acceptable. Finalspace below the list of authors.
manuscript should be sent to the Program Committee of the2.3.4 E-mail Address: E-mail address of authors should be
Conference by July 31, 2017. Please send a pdf file of yourcentered, in 9pt size italic with underline.
manuscript to the office of ICMR2017 (icmr@gipc.akita-u.ac.jp).
2.3.5 Abstract: The abstract has to be composed of no more
The abstract will be printed out in black and white in thethan 200 words. Set up additional 15mm left and right margins
Proceedings Volume. The full manuscript will be provided in aso the abstract width is 140mm. The abstract should be typed inUSB memory. The contributors don't need to send the source9pt size letter with two-line space below the E-mail address.
version of the paper and the files of illustrations.
2.3.6 Keywords: Write Keywords no more than five. The
12pt space should separate the keywords line from the abstract.
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FOR A CAMERA-READY MANUSCRIPTThis line should be written left aligned to the margin of abstract
and must begin with words ‘Keywords:’ written in the bold
10 pt Roman Bold for Second-ordernormal 9pt size letter. Keywords should be written in 9pt size
2.1 Arrangement
headingsletter.
The contents of a paper should be arranged as follows:
Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), E-mail address, Abstract,
Keywords, Main body of paper, Acknowledgments (if any),
2.4 Main Text
References (if any) and Appendices (if any). The typeface fonts
The paper should be typed using 9pt size letter with single
recommended for the manuscript are Times New Roman andspacing between text lines. New paragraphs are to be indented
Arial, only.
6mm from the left-hand margin, with no extra space between
paragraphs.

2The citation of figure(s), photograph(s), reference(s) andequation(s) have to be abbreviated as Fig.i; Photo i; Ref. [i];Eq.(i) or, in plural form, as Figs i, j; Photos i, j; Refs [i, j]; Eqs(i, j)-where i, j stand for a numbers. Above phrases are typed infull word when they appear as the first word of sentence.
Citation of table(s) is always written in full word -Table i, andTables i, j. Please be consistent in the use of capital letters,abbreviations and punctuation.
2.4.1 Headings: Do not use more than three level depths ofheadings.
First-order headings: these are typed in bold normal 10pt
size upper-case letter of Arial. One line of space is inserted
before and after each the heading. They are typed left aligned.
Second-order headings: these are typed left aligned, innormal 10pt size of Times New Roman. Put one line of space
before them.
Third-order headings: typeset in 9pt italics, with capital
initial letters. The text that follows the heading is written in thesame line. There is no additional space before such headings.
2.4.2 Equations: Equations are numbered and written inparentheses. Equation should be left aligned with 6mm indent
from the left margin. Leave a 6pt space above and below toseparate it from the surrounding text. The equation number
should appear at the extreme right of the line. Please pay
attention that all variable references in text must be written thesame style as in displayed equations.
2.4.3 Tables: Tables must be set as part of the text. All tables
must have a caption centered over the table and should benumbered sequentially and start with ‘Table i:’ (i stands fora number). Leave one line space above and below tables. The
caption of tables should be written in letters of 8pt size.

of Japanese journals published not in English, the formal
English title should be written with comment “(in Japanese)”.
When there is no formal English title, their phonetic expression
should be given.

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References

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20[1] Jikei M.; Kakimoto M., "Hyperbranched polymers: A
promising new class of materials" Prog. Polym. Sci. 26,1233-1285 (2001).
[2] Jikei M.; Itoh H.; Yoshida N.; Inai Y.; Hayakawa T.;
Kakimoto M.-A., "Synthesis of hyperbranched poly(ethernitrile)s by one-step polycondensation of an AB2 monomer" J.
Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 47, 5835-5844 (2009).
[3] Jikei M., Suzuki M., Itoh K., Matsumoto K., Saito Y.;
Kawaguchi S. "Synthesis of hyperbranched poly(l-lactide)s by
self-polycondensation of AB2 macromonomers and theirstructural characterization by light scattering measurements"
Macromolecules, 45, 8237-8244 (2012).
[4] Jikei M.; Yamaya T.; Uramoto S.; Matsumoto K.,"Conductivity enhancement of pedot/pss films by solvent vapor
treatment" Int. J. Soc. Mater. Eng. Resour. 20, 158-162 (2014).
[5] Matsumoto K.; Takahashi T.; Ishi S.; Jikei M., "Investigationof dispersibility of multi-walled carbon nanotubes using
polysulfones with various structures" Int. J. Soc. Mater. Eng.
Resour. 20, 77-81 (2014).
[6] Jikei M.; Takeyama Y.; Yamadoi Y.; Shinbo N.; MatsumotoK.; Motokawa M.; Ishibashi K.; Yamamoto F., "Synthesis andproperties of poly(l-lactide)-poly(-caprolactone) multiblock
copolymers by the self-polycondensation of diblock
macromonomers" Polym. J. 47, 657-665 (2015).
[7] Matsumoto K.; Nishi K.; Ando K.; Jikei M., "Synthesis andproperties of aromatic polyamide dendrimers with polyhedraloligomeric silsesquioxane cores" Polym. Chem. 6, 4758-4765(2015).
[8] Jikei M.; Nishigaya K.; Matsumoto K., "Synthesis of
hyperbranched poly(ether nitrile)s as supporting polymers for
palladium nanoparticles" Polym. J., 48, 941-948 (2016).

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2.5 Submission of Manuscript

Left & right margin of main body text

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Left & right margin of abstract and keywords

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Table 1. Summary of margins for A4 sheet to be used

ItemMargin (mm)2.4.4 Figures and Photographs: All figures andphotographs should be numbered sequentially and captioned.
The caption should be written centered below them and startwith ‘Figure i:’ and Photo i (i stands for a number). Figures andphotographs should be embedded in the document. It should beavoided to group them at the end of a paper. Instead, the figuresand photographs should be placed as close as possible to their
invocation in text. The caption of figures and photographs
should be written in 8pt size letter.
2.4.5 Acknowledgment(s): It should be typed with normal
9pt size letter.
2.4.6 References: The references are numbered in the orderof citation in the text body. They should be given at the end ofpaper in numerical order. It should be typed with normal 9pt
size letter. The arrangement of reference items is shown below
for examples. Be sure surname first rule applied. For the case

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Programming Committee of ICMR2017 AKITA
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E-mail address: icmr@gipc.akita-u.ac.jp
See also the site of
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